Events

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May 2008

1 David Serlin, "Touching Histories: Personality and Disability in Sex Studies of the 1930s" Symposium: "Education and Society in the Contemporary Era" Film Festival" "Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival"

2 Richard Thomas, "Propaganda, All Is Phony: What Is the Carmen Saeculare Doing?" Jose Esteban Munoz, "After Jack: Queer Virtuosity, Queer Failure" Isolde Brielmaier and Trevor Schoonmaker, "Highly Opinionated Hot Picks in Contemporary African Art" Film Festival: "Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival" Graduate Student Seminar with Esteban Munoz Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Why Political Theory Must Be Pessimistic If It Is to Be Democratic" Tamir Sorek, "Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave"

3 Conference: "Northwest Linguistics" Film Festival: "Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival"

4 Film Festival: "Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival"

5 Gasana Mutesi, "Grassroots Reconciliation in Rwanda" Panel: "Crossdisciplinary Research" George Shuffelton, "Is There a Minstrel in the House?: MS Ashmole 61 and Domestic Entertainment in Late Medieval England" Colloquium: "Science Studies Network Graduate Student Forum"

6 Seminar: "MS Ashomle 61" Frank Vogel, "Shari'a as Law and Legal System: Changing Perspectives" Marie Howe, "The Kingdom of Ordinary Times" Panel: "Transnational Issues in Mentoring/Supervision in Doctoral Education"

7 Panel: "Brain Drain, Brain Gain and Brain Circulation: Doctoral Education and the Global Divide"

8 Devesh Kapur, "Globalization and the Paradox of Indian Democracy" Lois Zamora, "The Baroque Self: Frida Kahlo and Gabriel Garcia Marquez" Yitzhak Laor, "The Israeli Jewish Condition: Reflections on the Role of White Privilege" Roger Ballen, "Shadow Chamber" Hector Gonzalez, "Chicano Rock and Roll" Conference: "Conception and Consumption" Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies

9 Workshop: "Salsa Music" Nancy Hornberger, "Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Biliteracy in Action" Alessandro Sciesaro, "Horace's Bacchic Poetic" Steve Brown, "'Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble': Uncanny Dolls in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" Workshop: "Salsa Dance" Conference: "Conception and Consumption" Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies Symposium: "American Sabor"

10 Film screening: "The Gates" Symposium: "Maritime Asia in the Early Modern World"

11 Michael Walzer, "The Meaning of Kingship"

12 Mini-Symposium: "Buddhism & Buddhist Visual Culture in Ancient Japan" William Mazzarella, "The Future of Censorship: The Obscenity of Publicity in India" Workshop: "Equity Issues in Science"

13 Panel: "Elephants Among Us" Marek Wieczorek, "The Sculptor and the Philosopher's Stone: Georges Vantongerloo's Cosmic Vision of Art" Film Screening: "Le Plafond de Verre/ The Glass Ceiling" Michael Walzer, "Prophecy and Social Criticism" Discussion with Jerome Bickenbach

14 Roundtable: "International Phenomenon of Women's Studies" Kurt Raaflaub, "Leaders in War and Bravery: The Ideology of War in Fifth Century Athens" Robert Houdek, "China in Africa: Implications for Development, Human Rights & the United States" Jerome Bickenbach, "Not Dead Yet: the Disability Angle" Paul W. Kroll, "Figures for Memory: Personal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry"

15 Robert Houdek, "Fashioning a U.S. Security Relationship with Africa" Film Screening: "Satya" Thomas Quinn, "Seeing the Big Bang" Michael Walzer, "Where Were the Elders?" Film screening: "Sweet Crude"

16 Panel: "Representation in Sites of Conflict" Film Screening: "Hop/The Hop" Discussion: "Foreign Service Careers"

17 Film Screening: "Le Grand Voyage/Grand Voyage" Film Screening: "10eme Chambre-Instants d'Audience"

19 Documentary: "Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the New South Africa" Forum: "Lives & Truth at Stake in the Niger Delta: Sweet Crude" Education Fair: "Sexual Health" CANCELLED: Colloquium: "Technoscientists in the Making" Jocelyn Moody, "The Perilous Travels of Elleanor Eldridge, 1830's Rhode Island Entrepreneur"

20 Sergey Erofeev, "New Educational Opportunities in Russia: Saint Petersburg and Kazan" Textual Studies Seminar with Ralph Hanna Gary Younge, "Generation Obama: What the New Cohort of Black Politicians Owe Their Elders and Why They'd Rather not Talk about It" Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser, "45th Annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading"

21 Kelly S. Walsh, "The Unbearable Openness of Death: The Elegies of Rilke and Woolf" Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Tsetan, "The Panchen Lama and Tashi Lhunpo: Past, Present and Future" Film Screening: "DXArts Undergraduate Film" Ralph Hanna, "The Topography of the York Play"

22 Textual Studies Seminar with Ralph Hanna Obiara Udechukwu, "'If You Call Your Plate a Potsherd...' The Postcolonial Artist and Tradition" Sabine Wilke: "Albert Bierstadt and the Western Landscape: Sublime Nature in Distress" Conference: "Transforming Museums: Bridging Theory and Practice"

23 Conference: "Beyond Dichotomies: Alternative Voices and Histories in Post-Colonial Viet Nam" Julian Hook, "How to Perform Impossible Rhythms" Film Screening: "La Petite Jerusalem/ Little Jerusalem" Ngo Ving Long, "From Polarization to Integration in Viet Nam" Conference: "Transforming Museums: Bridging Theory and Practice" Performance: "Young Composers and Performers Master Class with the Corigliano Quartet" Ellen Lust-Okar, "Elections Under Authoritarianism: Lessons from the Arab World"

24 Sergio Vega, "Open Satellite Artist Lecture" Conference: "Beyond Dichotomies: Alternative Voices and Histories in Post-Colonial Vietnam

27 Jonathan Beller, "Iterations of the Impossible" Cas Mudde, "Populist Radical Right Parties of Europe"

28 Susan Herring, "Perversely Conversational: Interaction in Convergent Media Computer-Mediated Communication" Jonathan Beller, "Aesthetics and Politics of Posthumanity" Graduate Student Seminar: "Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis"

29 David Lurie, "Early Japanese Poetry and the History of Writing"

30 Merrill Swain, "A Language Learning Strategy: Producing Before Comprehension" Performance: "Grimms Maerchen" Jeremy Weinstein, "Dynamics of Civil War" Colloquium: "Cyberpolitics 2.0"

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